Packing for stuffing-boxes.



No. 718,845. PATENTED JAN. 13, 1908.

' L. HAUSLEHNER. PACKING FOR STUFFING BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED APR.'11, 1901.

30 MODEL.

35 cutup into strips.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEOPOLD HAU-SLEHNER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, 'ASSIGNOR T ISIDORLANDAUER AND FERDINAND BLOCK, 0F VIENNA, AUSTRIA- HUNGARY.

PACKING FOR STU FFlNG-B OXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 718,345, dated January13, 1903. Application filed Aprilll, 1901. Serial No. 55,433. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD HAUSLEHNER, a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary,

residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower] Austria, inthe Empire ofAustria-Hungary,

' have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packings forStuffing-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the'following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to packing more especially designed for thepacking of stuffingi5 boxes; and it consists, essentially, of thinstrips obtained from a galvanic deposit of a metal softer than iron,preferably copper, as-

row strips,ywhich may then bebunched, or a bunch of such may be twistedinto rope form, or the bunches may be plaited.

In order to obviate the labor of removing the film of deposited metalbefore cutting it ,up into strips, I may deposit the metal upon asuitable thin flexible fibrous material-as, for instance, paper or atextile fabric-in which casea film of metal is deposited upon one sideof the material, and the latter is then Of course such a film may bedeposited upon both sides or surfaces of the material, if it is desired,though this I do not deem absolutely necessary.

Electrodeposition of metals as well as the electrodeposition of suchupon fibrous materials, as paper or textile fabrics, is well known andwill therefore not need a detailed description. I may state, however,that the best results are. obtained with comparatively thin films ofmetal or when the latter is deposited upon a backing of the character ofthin paper or of a light textile fabric.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a packing a,of electro- .deposited metal, in longitudinal section. Figs. 1 and 1 arecross-sections of packingstrips cut from sheets of paper or a textilefabric having one or both surfaces metallized. In Fig. 1 1% indicatesthe metallic deposit, and p the paper or textile fabric of the strip a,and in Fig. 1*, p indicates the strip of paper or textile fabric of thepacking-strip a and m ml the metallic deposit on opposite faces of saidstrip. Fig. 2 shows a number of strips 0. or of or a bunched together.Fig. 3 shows such bunch twisted into rope form; and Fig.

4 shows bunches of the strips 11, a, or on plaited.\

Practice has shown that packing made as above described is much.superior to the fibrous or metallic packings hitherto used in that it.wears better and is not as liable to result in leakage.

I have hereinabove stated that the strips are narrow and of course verythin, so that all the figures of drawings are drawn to an exaggeratedscale. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire tosecure by Letters Patent, isv i 1. A packing consisting ofbunched flexible stripsof an electrod'eposited and suitable metal, forthe purpose set forth.

2. A packing consisting of twisted or plaited bunches of-strips of anelectrodeposited and suitable metal, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEOPOLD HAUSLEHNER.

Witnesses:

JosEF RiiBREsoH, ALVESTO S. HOGUE.

It is hereby certified that the name of the last-mentioned assignee inLetters Patent N 0. 718,345, granted January 13, 1903, upon theapplicatien of Leopold Hauslehner, of Vienna, Austria-Hungary, for animprovement in Packing for Stufiing-Boxes, was erroneously written andprinted Ferdinand Block, Whereas said name should have been written andprinted Ferdinand Bloch; and that the said Letters Patent should be readwith this correction therein that the same may conform to the record ofthe case in the Patent Oflice Signed and sealed this 3d day, of March,A. D. 1903.

[SEAL] F. 1. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

